Pinned Items in Office 2016 not sorted alphabetically

I AGREE

If MS can sort a pinned list into most recently accessed first (Office 2016) or alphabetically (anything earlier) then surely they can add an option for the user to choose which way he/she wants them sorted.  This option to me is pretty fundamental to being able to retrieve frequently used files quickly and easily.

Yes I agree, the users should be able to choose.

I personnally loved the alphabetical sort and I'm completely lost now in my excel pined files that do not show up in the usual order.

Hope that Microsoft will fix this :)

I got Office 2016 installed today and this was one of the first obstacles I discovered.

I am using pinned files (and pinned folders !!, which are missing in Excel 2016 as well) a lot to speed up on my routine jobs.

The workaround I came up with is to create two folders _Files and _Folders as sub-folders of the My Documents folder.

This way, when I click on the This PC option, they are the topmost folders and easy to access. In the _Files folder I have the shortcuts to my pinned files and in the _Folders folder - you guessed it - the shortcuts to my folders I wanted to pin (but cannot, because there is no longer a pinned folders section that I could find.

An additional advantage to this workaround is the fact that you can name the shortcuts any way you like.

I have a folder Data on a Server in Europe, another one in North America, in China, in Japan and in South America. By naming the shortcuts like Data - CN or Data - EU, it is easier to find them quickly.

The one thing that is better in the File Open view of Excel 2016 when compared to Excel 2013 is the fact that the Browse button is now on the left instead of all the way down behind 40 recent files at the very bottom. This is the only improvement I could find so far. Maybe I learn more ...

I got Office 2016 installed today and this was one of the first obstacles I discovered.

I am using pinned files (and pinned folders !!, which are missing in Excel 2016 as well) a lot to speed up on my routine jobs.

The workaround I came up with is to create two folders _Files and _Folders as sub-folders of the My Documents folder.

This way, when I click on the This PC option, they are the topmost folders and easy to access. In the _Files folder I have the shortcuts to my pinned files and in the _Folders folder - you guessed it - the shortcuts to my folders I wanted to pin (but cannot, because there is no longer a pinned folders section that I could find.

An additional advantage to this workaround is the fact that you can name the shortcuts any way you like.

I have a folder Data on a Server in Europe, another one in North America, in China, in Japan and in South America. By naming the shortcuts like Data - CN or Data - EU, it is easier to find them quickly.

The one thing that is better in the File Open view of Excel 2016 when compared to Excel 2013 is the fact that the Browse button is now on the left instead of all the way down behind 40 recent files at the very bottom. This is the only improvement I could find so far. Maybe I learn more ...